As a few of you appear to have noticed, the Smack Jeeves Secret Santa is upon us once more. Again, I am pleased to call out for volunteers to help this succeed.

For now, I am simply hunting for Head Elves:

They will be responsible for the administrative functions of the Secret Santa. They will be required to organise and split jobs between themselves, set up the webcomic profile, organise the secret santas (matching up, PMing, answering queries), upload the gifts (and link user profiles), find and organise the Gift Elves, and deal with scrooges, grinches and rule breakers. In order to make self-organisation easier, the number of these has once again been limited to three.

If you are interested please reply on this thread stating so. Applications will be considered until midnight GMT of the 11th of November, and results posted here by the 13th if not sooner. Apologies for not posting this sooner, but I wanted to wait for the smack-o-lanterns to be put away before starting the Christmas cheer.

Lots of thanks to any applicants, lots of luck to all participants, and a Happy Christmas to all! HO! HO! HO!

Well that's it folks! The applications are in and the Head Elves for 2012 have been chosen!

Sonic-ock

Nikkinoodles

HalfAssedChaos (whom we trust won't live up to his name)

I would also like to offer a post of Special Advisor to Ddraigneth, if she is interested.

Last edited by Smack Santa on November 14th, 2012, 6:08 pm, edited 2 times in total.

You should wait for the gift elf post for the details. Since you're new to this, the position of head elf isn't for you yet.

In short, though: Secret Santa is a gift-giving event. Everyone who signs up has to give a present to someone else who signed up. In the end, everyone ends up giving someone else a present, and everyone gets a present. People who "cheat" and don't give a gift are called "scrooges" and are usually not allowed to participate again.

On SJ, instead of physical presents, we make art for each other.The "head elves" serve as administrators/organizers for the event, and the participants are called "gift elves."

eishiya wrote:People who "cheat" and don't give a gift are called "grinches" and are usually not allowed to participate again.

Ho Ho Ho

To be precise, scrooges are people who don't give a gift. They are currently banned from participation in the next year's secret santa.

Grinches on the other hand are people who intentionally put an insulting lack of effort into their work and refuse to clean up their act when told by the head elves. They are banned from two year's secret santas, to give them plently of time to grow up.

Lists of scrooges and grinches can usually be found on the previous year's comic sites, several of which may be found on my profile.

Smack Santa wrote:Lists of scrooges and grinches can usually be found on the previous year's comic sites, several of which may be found on my profile.

I've added links to the previous years on the front page for last year. I'm working on compiling the lists of Scrooges and Grinches, I'm not sure if Yakkity ever got around to that. If anyone knows where to find a Scrooge list for 2009, I can make sure we didn't have any repeat offenders.